Selfie

While Miley Cyrus started the twerk movement this year and brought the dance craze↲ along with the world into every household↲ around the world, it seems as if that wasn’t enough for “twerk” to be declared the word of the year!

The people at Oxford Dictionary chose↲ the word “selfie” to bestow the honor of being the International Word of the Year!

Although there were a number of↲ terminologies added to the Oxford Dictionary this year, one of the requirements↲ for a word to be considered Word of the Year is that it has to “attract a great deal↲ of interest during the year to date.”

Well, we think the word “selfie” has a number of celebrities to thank, starting with Kim Kardashian who set the whole world abuzz↲ with her infamous post-baby selfie!

The world “Selfie” is defined as:

A photograph that one has taken of oneself, typically one taken with a smartphone or webcam and uploaded to a social media.

The word first started gaining momentum in 2002 and it just became a part of everyone’s everyday vocabulary•since then!